by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 14, 2011 | family, happy endings
The first card Wendell ever gave me was a giant version with a dancing Snoopy from Peanuts on the front. Underneath it said, “Since I met you…” Inside, Snoopy bounced off the page with a little coiled spring, and the tag line read, “my feet...
by Kathy Nickerson | Feb 6, 2011 | family
Thanks to a friend of a friend on Faceobook, I just realized my mom washed dishes in our school cafeteria for twenty-six years. By hand. I had no idea she was there so long. But, I do have some idea what kind of impact she made. For me, it was quite personal, of...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 11, 2011 | family, Friendship, happy endings
Life is a little messy in our extended family right now. Chemotherapy for one branch, walking pneumonia in another. Two year olds with attitude, snowstorms, head-lice. All the normal stuff that most families face. And, it is always the little things that put me over...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 1, 2011 | family, happy endings
Putting away the lights is never as much fun and getting them out. Yet, I find a strange solace it wrapping the nativity pieces one-by-one and tucking them into their box. I’m comforted knowing they will be waiting for me next year, no matter what. (Okay, unless...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 28, 2010 | family, happy endings
Our family is pretty big on doing things together. We’ve been known to gather twenty family members in the waiting room when a new baby is born. In the last few years, though, geography has limited some of those interactions. (Baby Violet was sadly lacking in a...
by Kathy Nickerson | Dec 24, 2010 | family
This isn’t our house. But, we rented this place for a few glorious days in August and reveled in having all our clan under one roof. We swam, played, laughed, and prayed. We stayed up way too late and had lots of conversations like the one pictured above. These days...
